Graeff, Susan Prowell, 1890-1967 to Leonard Eugene Graeff

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GLC#
GLC09611.355-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
22 August 1944
Author/Creator
Graeff, Susan Prowell, 1890-1967
Title
to Leonard Eugene Graeff
Place Written
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Pagination
8 p. : envelope
Primary time period
Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
Sub-Era
World War II

One letter from Susan Prowell Graeff and Raymond James Graeff to Leonard Eugene Graeff dated August 22, 1944. Susan updates Leonard on the weather and a scandal in the town. A woman and her son Joe were living with a man named Turner who was not her husband. When the summer break from school started she and her son went to Massachusetts to visit the grandparents. Turner put an advertisement an the newspaper and sold all the furnishings in their apartment including items being borrowed from neighbors. He then followed her to Massachusetts with some war bonds in the woman's name and told her what he did with the excuse that he thought she wasn't coming back. The woman and her son have returned to town and spoken to a lawyer and are now suing the company Turner worked for as they were the company that put the ad in the paper. Susan also updates Leonard on his bank accounts, and the bracelet he requested. She answers some questions about family and friends including Lil (possibly Lillian Hogentoggler) Thomas Gassert, Jo Gassert, Mrs. Moyer, Kennith Moyer, Malinda Graeff, Edith Hutton, and Bertha Hutton. She mentions that Edith was visiting Malinda and fell off the porch and broke her leg.

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